Ashoka (disambiguation)

Ashoka (disambiguation)

"Ashoka" or "Ashok" means "without sorrow" in Sanskrit. It may refer to:

*Ashoka the Great, Emperor of the Mauryan empire in the third century BC
*, an international citizen sector organization
*Asoka (film), a 2001 Hindi film giving a largely fictional account of the life of Ashoka the Great
*Ashok (film), a 2006 Telugu film
*Ashoka tree, a flowering tree found in India and Sri Lanka
*Ashoka pillar, a pillar in the garden of Sarnath
*Ashoka, the Washington University Indian Students' Association
*Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker's Padawan learner

ee also

* Ashok Kumar, an Indian film actor
* Ashok Leyland, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturing company
* Ashok Banker, an Indian novelist and short story writer
* Ashokan Farewell, a song by Jay Ungar
* Asok (Dilbert character), a comic strip character


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